Hey, my name is Ciaran McCormack. I'm Irish and currently living in California. When I was a kid I would do some stop motion or play around with flipbook animation. I didn't do the typical transition of trying gmod and going to sfm. I went straight to sfm. At first I got a bit frustrated because it was a hell of a learning curve. Then when Doomsday Orange started animating in SFM I decided to revisit it. I do models in blender and tried animation in that. I don't really have any noteworthy published works because I haven't rendered anything (I have like 6 videos just sitting unrendered). Most of my unrendered projects got deleted or corrupted when they transferred hard drives a couple months ago. Hopefully this will help improve my animation skill.I am the type of person who enjoys setting up the scene and getting small details perfect. I really do hope this will cover particle systems because I would like to be able to understand how they work so I can make my own.